The List, Obama's One Hundred and Twenty Fourth Week in Office

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Obama's One Hundred and Twenty Fourth Week in Office

"The List" for 6/9/2011

Gunrunner-Gate

Guns From U.S. Probe Surface in Mexico

Issa releases witness list for first 'Gunwalker' hearing

Obama Ethics, Year 3

Janet Napolitano Visits NYU Law School to Discuss Need for Citizen Spies

FCC Faces Heat Over Disclosure Requirements in Net Neutrality Rules

HHS Official to Teens at Gov't GBT Youth Summit: Administration Recruiting LGBTs to Adopt Kids

3 Years After Bitter-People-Clinging-to-Guns Speech, Obama Creates ‘Rural Council’

DOJ, Diversity, and Low Expectations

It's 3am and nobody's there..

Obama sides with Argentina, Hugo Chavez on Falklands

Administration Defends Libya Mission as Costs Rise, Discontent Brews in Congress

Senators unveil Libya resolution pushing for Obama to seek congressional consent

White House defensive on Gabon

Obama meets with an African tyrant... The White House rolls out the red carpet for President Ali Bongo of Gabon

Texas agency: Authorities take gunfire on border

Napolitano: Concentrating Terrorists Screening Efforts on Muslim Men Under 35 is Not Good Logic (video)

US Costs for Libya Soaring, Report Finds

Obamacare

The Obama administration, a big fan of contests, on Wednesday announced a "bold new program" that centers on prizes and competitions to “spur innovation” in health information technology.

"If we uphold the individual mandate in this case, are there any limits on Congress's power left?" Eleventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Joel Dubina asked during questioning on Wednesday.

Obamanomics

Obama's Jobs Plan Takes a Page From Marx

30% Of People With A 401(k) Have Taken Out A Loan Against It: New All Time Record

US may lose prized AAA ratings: Fitch

Hillary Clinton interested in becoming head of World Bank?

The Handling of the Economic Crisis May Lead to Civil Unrest

Price of Field Corn at an All-Time High

Initial Jobless Claims in U.S. Unexpectedly Climbed Last Week to 427,000

CFO Survey: Moderate Economic Growth, Slow Job Market

Legendary Investor: Approaching Crisis ‘Worse’ Than ‘08, Yuan Will be Safer Than Dollar

Russian gold/forex reserves increase by 44 percent for 5 months

An Ohio restaurant mentioned last week by Obama as an indirect beneficiary of the government's Chrysler bailout will go out of business Sunday after a more than 70-year history

"The List" for 6/8/2011

It's 3am and nobody's there..

White House redefines ‘winning’ in Afghanistan ahead of review

Obama Ethics, Year 3

Another slap in the face for Britain: the Obama administration sides with Argentina and Venezuela in OAS declaration on the Falklands

Panetta Hearing for SecDef on Thursday: Obama’s CIA Director Linked to Spies Through Communist Party Figure

Holder DOJ fights Arizona’s efforts to prevent illegal alien voting

FCC Agrees to Take 'Fairness Doctrine' Off the Books

Trial tape: Rahm Emanuel asked Blagojevich to appoint Claypool

Obamacare

Lawmakers Press HHS for Information on Controversial Obamacare Waivers

No, You Can't Keep Your Health Insurance A new study by McKinsey suggests that as many as 78 million Americans could lose employer health coverage.

Obamanomics

Goolsbee Gone: Obama's Economic 'Dream Team' Evaporates

Republicans Are Pushing For A "Brief" Default As China Warns US Is "Playing With Fire"

Oil price set to soar as supply falls short of demand

Obama Team Eyes Payroll Tax Break for Employers

U.S. has record $61.6trillion in liabilities and is borrowing astonishing $125billion a month

Community Organizer to the World

Obama Administration to Public Schools: Gay Clubs Have Equal Right to Form on Campus

"The List" for 6/7/2011

Let them eat Kale

Picture: Michele Obama wears $7,000 gown

Gunrunner-Gate

'Gunwalker' guns linked to helicopter shooting

1st ‘Gunrunner’ hearing scheduled June 13th

Issa: Slew of Subpeonas to Be Issued Over Operation Fast and Furious

Obama Ethics, Year 3

Commerce nominee appears to endorse world government in video, Republicans say

Education Dep't Summit on Homosexuality Bars Reporters from Discussion Sessions

White House Certain Obama's Libyan Intervention Is Legal

Issa calls hearing on Justice Department possibly obstructing justice

Sen. Jim DeMint filed a Freedom of Information Act request Monday seeking communications that the federal labor agency may have had with union and Obama administration officials tied to Boeing's attempt to open an aircraft plant in South Carolina.

FDA sends US marshals to seize elderberry juice concentrate, deems it 'unapproved drug'

It's 3am and nobody's there..

As more U.S. troops die in Iraq, end of the mission there remains unclear

Obama: ‘Big chunk’ of Afghan objectives have already been achieved

0bama Pledges Cooperation in Euro Debt Crisis

Obama is floundering in a sea of bad news, as White House chief economist jumps ship

Obamacare

HHS never had authority to issue exemptions

Obamacare waivers weren’t in original law; ..through new rules and regulations, HHS gave itself the power last summer using a broad interpretation of certain parts of the law

The Medicaid provision of the health law spells the death knell for competition among the states

Obamanomics

Obama Blames Bush, Media And American Consumers For Bad Economy

U.S. funding for future promises lags by trillions....-Government Now Owes over $61.6 trillion in Unfunded Mandates

Consumers borrowed more for 7th straight month

The U.S. government's financial situation worsened rapidly in 2010, more than the $1.5 trillion in new debt to finance the deficit, a USA Today analysis showed

Bernanke glum on growth; no hint of more stimulus

Bernanke Can't Deny That Obama's "Recovery" Is Bad

Obama Says We Don't Know Yet Whether Disappointing Jobs Report is 'a Longer Trend'

Obama: No fears of double-dip recession

Currently, about 18.5 percent of American males between the ages of 18 and 55 are unemployed. About 44 million Americans are on food stamps

WPost Fact-Checker shreds Obama auto recovery claims

General Motors Co. CEO Dan Akerson wants the federal gas tax boosted as much as $1 a gallon to nudge consumers toward more fuel-efficient cars

GM China Sales Fall as CEO Cites 'Cultural Revolution'

Obama’s Remarkable Statement on Jobs: “We Don’t Know Yet What Happened”

Obama Economy Hits Young People the Hardest

Fed's QE2 Policy Has Failed To Lift Real Wages

Geithner to Foreign Countries: Please Make Your Financial Markets Less Free

Obama and Israel

Syria "clearly" inciting Israel border protests: U.S.

Egypt-Gate

Egypt: Muslim Brotherhood recognized as legitimate political party

"The List" for 6/6/2011

Obama Ethics, Year 3

Obama Administration knew for weeks that GM would make fraudulent claims - Documents just released by the U.S. Treasury Department in response to a Freedom of Information Act ..show that General Motors and the Obama Administration coordinated PR strategy regarding GM’s much-criticized ad campaign in 2010, in which the car maker misleadingly claimed to have repaid what it received from taxpayers

White House says it complied with war powers act

Documents show marriage of Obama's parents a sham Newly released files reveal 'couple' didn't live together

Valerie Jarrett’s Father-in-Law Was a Communist – Worked With Obama Mentor Frank Marshall Davis

Obama's Commerce Nominee, John Bryson, Wants to Limit Energy Consumption and Redistribute Wealth

Just days after the House passed a bipartisan rebuke of President Barack Obama for sending military force into Libya without congressional approval – White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said they sought no legal opinion on doing so, yet maintained the White House acted within its constitutional bounds.

The Justice Department’s Civil-Rights Division has hired dozens of Democratic-affiliated lawyers from organizations that have a huge financial stake in the agency’s decisions and policies

Audio: Atty Stephen Pidgeon Found Record of Name Change for Barack Obama in British Columbia

U.S. court rejects GE challenge to EPA cleanup orders

It's 3am and nobody's there..

WH: US troop cuts in Afghanistan will be 'real'

Gates Foresees ‘Modest’ Troop Withdrawal From Afghanistan in July

Obamacare

Firms halting coverage as reform starts: survey 30% of companies say they’ll stop offering health plans

CBO hires Obamacare advocate to provide ‘objective’ health care budget numbers

Obamacare rations care for the elderly and disabled-two of our nation's most vulnerable populations

Obama and Democrats proposed Accountable Care Organizations -a proven failure

Health Care Wait Costs Veterans' Lives

Obamanomics

Comex Warehoused Physical Silver Drops To Fresh All Time Low Of 28.8 Million Ounces, 3% Drop Overnight, 30% Drop In Six Weeks

Daily economic briefings disappear from Obama's White House schedule

Wall Street hits 2-1/2 month low on economic worry

Bailed-Out GM Spends Millions on Phantom Carbon Offsets

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) says the real cost of the federal government guaranteeing the business of failed mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac is $317 billion

True cost of Fannie/Freddie bailout more than twice Obama administration claim

The Job Market: Far Worse Than It Appears... The seasonally adjusted number of workers employed increased by only 54,000. After taking prior-month downward revisions into account, only 15,000 more Americans were working in May than were working in April

Community Organizer to the World

HHS Official on DOE LGBT Youth Summit: Gov’t ‘Has Finally Come Out of the Closet'

On College Campuses, Obama's Not Cool Anymore

Carville: 2012 could be ‘very rough’ for Obama, says civil unrest ‘imminently possible’

GOP Votes to Defund Obama’s Radical Socialist ACORN Army

Obama and Israel

White House trying to restart Mideast peace talks based on Obama guidelines

The United States holds Syria responsible for the violence on the Golan Heights Sunday, a State Department spokesperson said Monday

Obama Toying With American Jewry over Pollard?

"The List" for 6/5/2011

Gunrunner-Gate

Darrell Issa to subpoena Obama admin over Project Gunrunner

Obama Ethics, Year 3

Did Obama's father forget when he was born? Questions rise from date indicated on president's birth certificate  

Project 60: China Buying Idaho?

Darrell Issa to Elizabeth Warren: Clear a full day on your June calendar, we’ve got more questions

Obama's name different on passport? Doesn't match birth records released

It's 3am and nobody's there..

US mulls larger troop pullout from Afghanistan: report

Defense Secretary Robert Gates bluntly told Marines on Sunday that they won't be able to opt out of their enlistment just because they disagree with a government decision to end a ban on gays serving openly in the military

Army's 101st pays high price for Afghan surge year

NATO Continues Air Assault on Libya

Obama's Servile Negotiations With the Taliban Over Afghanistan

Once Again, FBI’s ‘Muslim Outreach’ Welcomes Terror-Tied Man- Despite knowing the Hamas ties of Kifah Mustapha, the FBI gave him a guided tour of a top-secret counterterrorism center and access to classified investigative techniques.

Obamacare

Abortion showdown could cost Indiana $4.3 billion- Administration threatens pulling fed dollars as payback for abortion ban

IBM exec offers to save $900 billion in health care costs, but Obama turned him down

Obamanomics

Obama Blames Europe, Japan for US Economic Woes

Confirmed. Obama’s Monetary Policy Causes Massive Pain At The Pump

Gold Rises on Jobs Report

The federal government has moved from economic “recovery mode” to focusing on “standing up” the private sector to fuel a turnaround, a top White House adviser said

One of Obama's top economic advisers hit the airwaves today to calm concern over recent depressing news about the economy. "One month is not a trend," said Austan Goolsbee

DOW plunges into longest weekly losing streak since 2004 as Obama blames 'Europe, earthquake and gas prices' for economic woe

U.S. gives billions of dollars in foreign aid to world's richest countries - then asks to borrow it back

Cash-strapped states look to roll back tax credits

Let them eat kale

Obama golfs for the tenth weekend in a row

Community Organizer to the World

U.S. Department of Education to host LGBT youth summit Monday and Tuesday in Washington, D.C.

Obama and Israel

US 'deeply troubled' at killings on Israel-Syria border

PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas: "We Refuse to Recognize a Jewish State"

Just as Israeli officials feared,... Obama's "vision" of pushing Israel back to it's 1967 borders has become the basis for international peace efforts in the Middle East

"The List" for 6/4/2011

Obama Ethics, Year 3

Obama's Mounting Media Manipulation

Judicial Watch has obtained documents that show that Free Press, a progressive group funded by George Soros and other leftist benefactors was colluding with the FCC to push through its plan for the government control of the internet known also known as net neutrality

Cass Sunstein Olympics

Sunstein's testimony to a Senate Subcommitte on his "Regulatory Assessment" (video).. explains how regulations help business grow

Obamanomics

VIDEO: Amid 9.1% Unemployment Obama Whines About Europe’s ‘Fancier Trains’

Administration blocks restart of massive oil pipeline, citing leaks

The Obama administration wants to help more struggling Americans stay in their homes by reducing the amount they owe on their troubled mortgages

US house price fall 'beats Great Depression slide'

Dow Average Has Its Longest Weekly Slump Since 2004

The Scariest Jobs Chart Ever- Unemployment

'Actual US unemployment stands at 17%' (only if you count all of the unemployed)

JPM Lowers Q2 GDP For Second Time In A Week, Warns Of A "Severe Downgrade" To Forecast In Case Of A Technical Default

EPA Gives Millions in Grants to China for "Environmental Awareness"

'We can live the American dream' says Obama as jobs take massive hit ... and almost half those created are at McDonald's

The Obama administration is 0-for-3 in meeting economic expectations.

White House’s Own 2009 Prediction Shows We Would Have Been Better Off Without Stimulus

Let them eat kale

President Obama wolfs down TWO chili dogs and fries...... the day after his wife unveils new dietary guide

Obama and Israel

Obama Continues US Routine of Keeping Embassy out of Jerusalem

Fatah PA Islamists praise Obama for not moving U.S. embassy to Jerusalem from Tel-Aviv

U.S. State Department Warns Turkey Over Planned Gaza Flotilla

Obama Inspired Ship to Join IHH Gaza Flotilla

Community Organizer to the World

Michelle Obama announces she's taking her daughters to visit Africa later this month

"The List" for 6/3/2011

Cass Sunstein Olympics

Obama Regulatory Czar Backs Off Call for Gov't to Attach Lower Value to Older People

It's 3am and noobody's there

Speaker Boehner Throws Down the War Powers Act Gauntlet On Libya...gives Obama three weeks..House votes 268-145 to pass Speaker Boehner's resolution rebuking President Obama for military action against Libya without congressional approval

Obamanomics

Attention Marxists: Labor's Share Of National Income Drops To Lowest In History

China Has Divested 97 Percent of Its Holdings in U.S. Treasury Bills

American Eagle silver sales so far in 2011 best in 25 years

The average duration of unemployment- shot off the charts, total civilian employment-population ratio remains at multi-decade lows, Manufacturing jobs haven't been this low since the 40s, Federal jobs....steady

Awkward: Obama Says U.S. Economy Took Hit ‘Even a Wrangler Would Have a Hard Time With’  (Video)

Obama Appeals for Patience on Economy After Dismal Jobs Report

White House Attempts to Spin Bad Jobs Report..."bumps on the road to recovery"

Unemployment rate much worse than 9.1% (Arguably, 11.5%)

Unemployment Goes Up, Obama Declares Victory: despite the dismal news that 13.9 million Americans remain unemployed, ..Obama is holding a victory party today at a Chrysler plant in Toledo,

Job growth slows to 54,000 in May, rate up to 9.1%

Dow, S&P fall for fifth-straight week

The Weekly Leading Index (WLI) Growth indicator of the Economic Cycle Research Institute (ECRI) declined to 4.9 from last week's 5.0. This is the sixth consecutive week of decline from the 11-month interim high of 7.8 for the week ending on April 15.

Taxpayers lose Billions, but Obama told a Chrysler plant in Toledo, Ohio..: “Chrysler has repaid every dime and more of what it owes the American taxpayer from the investment we made during my watch.

Whitewashing the Auto Bailouts

Chrysler’s fake auto bailout pay back: "Just another Obama con job".  American taxpayers have already spent more than $13 billion bailing out Chrysler. The Obama administration already forgave more than $4 billion of that debt when the company filed for bankruptcy in 2009. Taxpayers are never getting that money back. But how is Chrysler now paying off the rest of the $7.6 billion they owe the Treasury Department?  A stock scam with Fiat.

Wal-Mart is seeking to ease investors' concern about sagging U.S. sales. The retailer also unveiled a $15 billion share buyback.

The Pentagon's top office- servicemembers will likely see cuts in pay and benefits as the military plumbs its budget for nearly half a trillion dollars in savings over the next 12 years.

The Obama administration's reactions to last year's BP oil spill did more damage than the crude itself, Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour and Gulf Coast employers told a House committee

Obama Ethics, Year 3

Judge Rules Not to Dismiss FOIA Lawsuit Filed over Obama’s Social Security Number

Obama Commerce Nominee Entangled with Chinese Business John Bryson sits on the board of troubled electric car manufacturer Coda, which is waist-deep in Chinese investment and debt

Elena Kagan Mania

Kagan Assigned DOJ Lawyer Who Argued Obamacare Cases In Appeals Courts

Obamacare

Obamacare's Big Brother: Accountable Care Organizations  The fundamental flaw with ACOs is the Big Brother approach of controlling costs by dictating how physicians may practice. Doctors may decide they'd rather be 'accountable' to their ACO paymasters rather than patients.

Obama and Israel

Rahm Emanuel: Obama doesn't mean return to 1967 lines

Community Organizer to the World

Obama team unveils exciting federal logo to make you eat less of what you like and more of what you don't

[Nachum]

It's the Obama economy, stupid.

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[Pollster1]

Just 84 more weeks until we can have a real president. I pray that American voters have learned from this terrible mistake and now deserve someone who is capable and who loves this country.